We were just talking about this last week...
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=46413
Freeman's Rama Close To Reality?
Morgan Freeman told SCI FI Wire that his long-held dream of producing
and starring in a big-screen adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's SF novel
Rendezvous With Rama is closer than ever to becoming a reality.
"That is going to happen," Freeman said in an interview while promoting
his latest film, The Bucket List. "Thank heaven, that is going to
happen. We're looking for that to start in the next year."
Rendezvous with Rama, which was published in 1972, follows a group of
human explorers who intercept and try to unlock the secrets of an alien
spaceship that has approached Earth. Freeman would play the commander of
the Endeavor, the deep-space maintenance ship used to rendezvous with
the alien craft.
"The story itself is the idea that we can be visited from outer space,"
Freeman said. "The idea that we're the only living intelligent creatures
is ... you can't really believe that. Well, you can, but if you think
about it for a while, what if there are other intelligent creatures--and
I firmly believe there are--what does that tell us? We're going to
imagine that they're going to have to look something like us, and if
they don't look like us what does that tell us about God?"
Freeman has had Rendezvous With Rama on his radar for nearly a decade,
but this is the closest it's been to happening. It's listed not only as
"announced" on the Internet Movie Database, but it's also on the Web
site of Freeman's production company, Revelations Entertainment, which
classifies it as "in development."
"We have been in close contact with Arthur C. Clarke," Freeman said. "As
a matter of fact, I went to Sri Lanka just to have a sit-down with him.
I'm very excited about this. When the people at [NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory] learned that we had this project we got calls from them.
'Any help you need, any help at all. ... '"
Freeman added: "So we've been trying to develop a script. It's a very
large project. You have got to develop the script, and you have got to
design spaceships. And because Arthur C. Clarke wrote it, and because
it's so much real science involved, we can't take too many liberties."
--Ian Spelling
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